Category: Health

Oh, Snap! ObamaCare Could Reduce Competition And Raise Costs (Part 2,467)

Posted on by William Teach

Seriously, who could have foreseen this coming? When Congress passed the health care law, it envisioned doctors and hospitals joining forces, coordinating care and holding down costs, with the prospect of earning government bonuses for controlling costs. And they would all join hands, sing kumbaya, and have a unicorn smoothie (Coke will soon be taxed […]

 

Obama’s Socialist-Admiring Medicaid/Medicare Chief Gets Hearing

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Donald Berwick, Obama’s nominee to head up the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, made himself infamous earlier this year when video came to light showing him telling a British audience how much he admired their socialist healthcare system because it “redistributes” the Brit’s wealth. Berwick went all warm and fuzzy over the socialist features […]

 

Obamacare Waivers Prove Policy is a Jobs Killer, Unions Benefit Most

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

111 companies and organizations were granted waivers by Obama’s Dept. of Health and Human Services so that they could get out of having to comply with Obamacare and unions were particularly well rewarded by the HHS with these waivers. Interestingly, there was no great announcement of these waivers issued to the press. The HHS buried […]

 

San Francisco Petition To Ban Circumcision is About Much More than Skin

Posted on by Jane Jamison

San Francisco’s latest, greatest “cause celebre” is : the penis.:  Sure, why not? Liberals are driving this city-in-decline into the ocean (++++See below for San Francisco financial problems) because they refuse to stop spending tax payer money on “do-gooder” causes and refuse to deal with the financial reality of dwindling tax revenues.: :  San Francisco radicals, most […]

 

During Breast Cancer Month Obama’s FDA Ponders Delisting Cancer Drug

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

So you have Avastin, a drug used to treat breast cancer that has a record of extending the lives of sufferers for at least five and a half months, and it’s October, the month declared Breast Cancer Awareness Month. If you are the Obama Federal Drug Administration, what do you do? Apparently you look to […]

 

Feds Deciding When Healthcare Science Costs Too Much To Save Lives

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

If anyone wants a current example of what is looming ahead for medical science at the hands of Obamacare, the Avastin controversy is a perfect one. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to de-list the cancer drug Avastin one reason being that it is a drug too expensive for government to fund. It is […]

 

Video: Media…. TELL THE TRUTH!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Remember that lie the media tried to foist upon us that Tea Party folks “hurled racial epithets” on members of Congress during the healthcare debate? Well here is just a reminder that there never has been any proof to substantiate the claim that the Old Media and the black Congressional Caucus threw out at the […]

 

Obama’s Healthcare Rules Will Shut Down Catholic Hospitals Nationwide

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Some of Obamacare’s most destructive forces are quickly becoming common knowledge. We have, for instance, become painfully aware that Obama’s claim that we all could keep our plans and doctors “if you like them” is an outright falsehood as some people are already losing their coverage. It is also becoming clear that companies will be […]

 

Due to ObamaCare, 3M Won’t Provide Health Insurance to Retirees

Posted on by Dave Blount

The damage from ObamaCare continues to unfold: 3M Co., citing new federal health laws, said Monday it won’t cover retirees with its corporate health-insurance plan starting in 2013. Instead, the company will direct retirees to Medicare-backed insurance programs, and will provide reimbursement for that coverage. That would be the same Medicare that the Dems just […]

 

Insurance For Pre-Existing Conditions Expensive Under ObamaCare

Posted on by William Teach

Who would have thought it? It’s a centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s health care remake, a lifeline available right now to vulnerable people whose medical problems have made them uninsurable. But the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan started this summer isn’t living up to expectations. Enrollment lags in many parts of the country. People who could […]

 

WOW, Democrat Jokes That Seniors Should Be Denied End-Of-Life Healthcare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Democrat Gary McDowell is running to replace Bart Stupak (D, MI) in Michigan’s First District and while he may be hoping he might get the votes of seniors coming to the end of their time here on this mortal coil, he sure seems reticent to give them the medical care they’ll need to be around […]

 

Reusable Grocery Bags Are Unclean

Posted on by Dave Blount

Moonbats want us to reuse grocery bags, so as to save trees from the paper producers who plant them and polar bears from the very concept of plastic. Once again we see that moonbattery is harmful to your health: The CALL7 Investigators tested several reusable bags used by 7NEWS colleagues and another from a woman […]

 

Mentally Retarded Now Have ‘Intellectual Disability’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Along with implementing a socialist takeover of healthcare making it more expensive and less attentive, aside from taking over America’s car industry and creating a new brand of auto — Government Motors — and right along side efforts to give Big Labor millions of our tax dollars in payoffs and bailouts, not to mention attempting […]

 

Remember That Business About Healthcare Being Cheaper and You Could Keep You Coverage…

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

… well, we are finding out now that millions of seniors will have to change their Medicare prescription plans because of “double-digit hikes” in costs. Premiums will go up an average of 10 percent among the top 10 drug plans that have signed up about 70 percent of seniors, according to an analysis of Medicare […]

 

ObamaCare Deprives Children of Health Insurance

Posted on by Dave Blount

Remember Comrade Obama’s promise that fewer children would be covered by health insurance after he had seized control of the healthcare sector? No? But that’s how it’s turning out: Thousands of Colorado children will soon have fewer options for health insurance. And parents who may not be able to afford it for themselves, but want […]

 

Even Dems Sour on ObamaCare Disaster

Posted on by Dave Blount

A few months ago, Democrats were shrieking that the sky would fall if they didn’t seize control of the healthcare industry immediately. But the upcoming election, combined with the public’s fervent rejection of ObamaCare, has changed their tune: Since the beginning of Congress’s August recess, Democratic candidates have poured $930,000 into ads deriding the health […]

 

Some Insurers To Raise Rates As Direct Result Of ObamaCare

Posted on by William Teach

Did Democrats really think there would be no rate hikes due to their monstrous legislation, which most probably didn’t read? Health insurers say they plan to raise premiums for some Americans as a direct result of the health overhaul in coming weeks, complicating Democrats’ efforts to trumpet their signature achievement before the midterm elections. Aetna […]

 

Weekly GOP Video Address: Florida’s Marco Rubio… ‘We Must Repeal Obamacare!’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Marco Rubio is running for Senate in Florida. He is a former speaker of the Florida House of Reps and is currently leading in the polls in the Sunshine State. Some have been wondering if the national GOP was going to actually run on repealing Obamacare. Well, this is the official GOP address, Party approved, […]

 

Health Care Reform Kills College Students

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

The problem with never living with consequences is that one has trouble imagining consequences of one’s actions. Thus, a pampered elite class has trouble with health care reform because it’s chock full of unintended consequences–to them. Anyone with a brain and who has had to live the cause-effect understands and has an uncanny gift to […]

 

Congress Secretly Behind Massive Egg Recall

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The news is everywhere of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s recall of millions of eggs from several Midwestern farms allegedly due to fears of a salmonella outbreak but the real story is undergoing a massive coverup. The truth is that Congressional Democrats are behind this recall. In a secret document discovered by famed blogger […]